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More jobs, more jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
So what did you think? Was it good or bad? Good enough to keep the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) finger off the trigger for another month or something ominous that it would have no option but the fire? Was the "6202.0 - Labour Force, Australia ...

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012

VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
Armageddon. Catastrophe. Lehman Bros moment. GFC mark II. Game over. Funny but... haven't I heard all this before? Let me think. Yeah right. That's it. "Twas about four years ago when Lehman bit the dust. Remember how you - and your neighbours -- felt ...

Instant replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... For given Prime Minister Gillard's latest backflip over the Slipper and Thomson affairs, Treasurer Wayne Swan would move heaven and earth to ensure that this is one promise they keep. Then again, perhaps the Government will do a U-turn on this too.

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way..." No Virginia, I must admit I haven't read Charles' (Dickens) immortal 'A Tale of ...

Not the biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 18 MAR 2012

Wen Confucius meets Sun Tzu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... great ancestor, Sun Tzu, whose "The Art of War" advises that, "Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as heaven and earth".

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... Some people might be slapping their backsides today for being spooked at yesterday's headlines and unloading some or - for heaven's sake, I hope not - all of their holdings. Told you Virginia, it was just a matter of financial market commentators trying ...

Thrilla in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... vote anyway. Might as well sit and wait till after 10AM Monday and cross our fingers that Itchy wins, not Scratchy and heaven forbid, Krusty the Clown. Deym, I think I watch too much of "The Simpson's". Who's Itchy and who's Scratchy, you decide? Oh ...

Boing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
Boing! That's the sound heard all over Wall Street overnight - the sound of rebounding US eco stats, that is. The Street jumped high and pushed the S&P 500 up by 1.1% to its highest close since the 10th of May and 10 points shy of the three-year summit ...